Cross
Walk Life, Inc. is here to provide insights, healing,
teaching and training,
so that you can develop a more intimate relationship with
Father God and have
the passion of Christ, to be equipped to fulfill your God
given destiny.

The passion
of Christ is for us to partner with Him to set the captives
free.

Are You Commissioned?
Or in Compromise?Are You a
Warrior or War-Bride?
(thoughts while reading "War-Bride" by Penny Voegeli)

We are not civilians; we are commissioned. We
were sheep; now we are called to be war horses, to be
trained to run toward the battle, without regard for our
personal welfare. In a very real sense, we should not
fear death because we know that we, our spirit, will
never never die. I know that we have delegated power to
tear down strongholds who lift themselves up against the
knowledge of God. My assignment is clear; my mission is
to partner with Lord Sabaoth (the Lord of Hosts) to
destroy the works of the enemy, to tear down
strongholds. Who will join our Cross Walk Life team and
invest time, money and energy to seek and find the
captives? Who has heard the call to join us as we set
the captives free through Restoration Prayer Ministry?

2 Cor
10:4-6 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but
mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5
casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts
itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every
thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 6 and
being ready to punish all disobedience when your
obedience is fulfilled.

Who am I? I am a War Bride,
not one who stays home while others go to fight in the
war, but a Bride of Jesus Christ, our Lord Sabaoth. I am
called to ride into war with Him. My Intercessor friend,
Penny Voegeli, was led to give me a copy of her new
book, "War-Bride." Penny described our call to warfare,
"Develop your spiritual gifting. Some of you are
intelligence gatherers, called to go into the occupied
territory specifically to learn the weakness of the
enemy. There are those specifically gifted to and called
to discern the enemy's movements so that my people are
prepared for his advances and are not caught off guard.
Other are specifically equipped as strategists to know
how to plan counterattacks and new offenses to gain
territory, armed with this intelligence."

Is our God a
God of war? The
Holy Bible refers to the Lord of hosts (or Lord Sabaoth)
244 times: 4 times more than any other
descriptive name of God! Hosts means "a mass of persons
organized for spiritual warfare or the army." The Bible
is describing the Lord of a people organized for war.
Most people understand God as a merciful Father who sent
a loving Savior, but God will not stay in that box. He
is also the Lion of Judah, mighty in power and mighty in
battle. The passion of Christ in us stirs up God's zeal.

Lord Sabaoth, you have been
teaching our hands to war and our fingers to
fight! Psalm 144:1 You have given us a shield of faith
and Your Holy Word, the Sword of the Spirit!
I receive your
wisdom to take back all the ground that the devil has in
me first, so that I can be safe under Your wings
and more effective in taking back our land from him. I
choose to repent of every sin, judgmental attitude,
unforgiveness, resentment, bitterness, jealousy,
pity-party, doubt, etc. Lord, teach us how to love you
with all of our heart, body and soul and to love others
as ourselves.

Lord Sabaoth, teach us the
difference between the offensive strategies of spiritual
warfare that you are leading us in today and
the defensive strategies that we have been using. Lord,
teach us which of our spiritual weapons to use and when,as we go forth trampling over "all the power
of the enemy" as You said in Luke 10:19.

Lord Jesus, while You command
us to fight, You promise that our "life is
hid with Christ in God." Col. 3:3 Thank you for Your
protection, Jesus. As we remain hidden in the Secret
Place of the Most High (Psalm 91,) we have the upper
hand in an offensive battle, the element of surprise,
because our enemy cannot see us coming. We run into Your
light to be hidden; Your light blinds the enemy! Thank
you for mighty intercessors and warrior angels that
empower us to build your Kingdom on earth as it is in
Heaven.

Lord Jesus, cover all of our
conversations with the blood of Jesus and
prevent every demon from seeing or hearing us as we go
to war. We have a confidence and a clear conscience
because your blood has cleansed us from all sin. (1 John
1:9) We fight boldly because the blood of Jesus gives us
instant and constant access to the Father. We know that
God has made covenant with us and has sealed it with the
blood of Jesus. We who know our God shall do exploits
(Daniel 11:32.) "And they overcame him by the blood of
the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony and loved
not their own lives unto death." (Revelation 12:11).

Lord Sabaoth, Your government on
earth is carried out through Your covenant
people. Christ in us, has supremacy over every type of
evil spirit and all assignments of the enemy, triumphing
over them. (Col. 2:15) It is critical that we remember
how weak we were when we were separated from You, so
that we will daily choose to be one with You now. "Your
strength is made perfect in weakness." (2 Cor. 12:9) We
must discern between the captives and the enemy; free
the captives and fight the enemy.

We choose to rise up because we
believe "greater is He that is in us than he
that is in the world." (1 John 4:4) We know that your
mighty power is activated in us when we rest in you and
your strength alone. You Lord, are everything: "That the
excellency of your power may be of God, and not of us
... we have this treasure in earthen vessels" (2 Cor.
4:7). We choose to take You at Your Word and to war with
Your Word. We press into scripture after scripture with
dogged determination to lay aside all doubt and to swing
the Sword of the Spirit, until Your Kingdom has come and
Your will is done on earth as it is in Heaven!

Who will
commit to becoming involved? to pray, to give or to seek
and find sheep?
Remember, it is not what we feel (like fear) but what we
do in spite of what we feel. The Lord sovereignly gives
us angels at our side, when we are sent by Him. We use
spiritual weapons to win spiritual wars in a spiritual
Kingdom. We resist every temptation to listen to satan,
to step out of line, to write our own orders, to take
matters into our own hands or to touch His glory. We may
look like the most unlikely but God has chosen to show
Himself strong through the weak and foolish. We choose
to fight in His way, His will and His timing (whether He
uses "mud and spit," puts the praise team on the front
lines, or asks us to march 7 days in silence!)

Our goal is occupy and maintain
what already belongs to the Kingdom of God
more than to go after the devil. We don't overcome evil
by focusing on it but by manifesting the presence of
Jesus Christ everywhere we go. We know that in warfare
in the Spiritual realm, demonstrating the fruit of His
Spirit is more important than Spiritual gifting. We
don't try to control people but we do exercise our
delegated power over the dark side. Darkness never casts
out light and light always casts out darkness. The blood
of Jesus has not lost its power!

Knowing we are your War-Bride
makes us want to walk in Your manifest presence,
shining Your glory to everyone we meet. It is in
demonstrating Your heart that all men will be drawn to
You and find the living water that will finally quench
their thirst and overflow to all around them. We choose
to be conformed to Your image; not to try to conform to
ours. The Bible says:

Isaiah 61:1 "The Spirit of the Lord
GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal
the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the
prison to those who are bound ... "

Don't you hear His call? He is calling us not
only to hear His voice, not only to obey Him, but to do
our warfare and to set the captives free. In these last
days, many have been deceived and don't know their true
identity. Jesus prayed that we would deny ourselves,
take up our cross and follow Him --- GO into all the
world --- seek and find --- and rescue the perishing. If
you would like to join us at Cross Walk Life, as we
reach out to a broken-hearted world, please call us.